As her spiritual sense entered the jade slip, a large amount of karma-based techniques entered her mind.

"This is disappointing " mumbled Xu Yue as she examined the techniques in the jade slip.

The techniques inside of the jade slips could be roughly divided into two types, those that have high requirements for dao comprehension and those that could not increase Xu Yue's strength.

"Let's see if any of them are at least usefull " thought Xu Yue as she once again scoured the jade slip.

This time, Xu Yue spent a longer time examining each and every technique, seeing if she could find any that would be of use to her.

As she was scoring through the techniques, Xu Yue thought of the way the tournament will be held.

"That one would be quite useful " thought Xu Yue as she remembered one technique in particular.

"Found it " thought Xu Yue as she smiled.

The Karmic Mark technique, this technique connects individuals using karma mark, as such the individual who had created the mark would know the location of the other at all times, the only way to remove the mark was with the help of someone with higher comprehension of the Dao os Karma.

Xu Yue's eyes shone as she looked to read the description of the technique. In the first part of the tournament, such an ability would be invaluable.

At the same time in another location.

Several beings were arguing over something, while others stood at the side ignoring them.

"Since we cannot come to an agreement on whether to punish her, I propose a vote " said Deng Huiling lightly, her voice was slightly overpowering, sending a shiver in the air.

After this, the others calmed down and the discussion became civil once again.

"I vote against punishing her " said Xu Ming, for him there was nothing to even think about, punishing his precious great-granddaughter was preposterous.

"For punishment " said Yuan Yingjie, with a look of righteous anger on his face.

"The fact that we have to vote on this is a farce " mumbled Yuan Yingjie under his breath. With their cultivation bases, all the others heard this. They then proceeded to ignore it, except for Xiong Feng, who seemed to be in agreement.

"Punishment " said Xiong Feng. Anger could also be seen on his face. The two of them were by far the most righteous ancestors of the original sword sect.

"I am against punishing her " said Wu Xiulan in a gentle voice, as she said this some of the beings in this room frowned.

A frown appeared on Xiong Feng's face, based on what he knew of her, Wu Xiulan would aggre to punish Xu Yue

His confusion eased after he sensed the secrets of heaven and earth.

"So this is why you accepted a vote " thought Xiong Feng as he looked at Xu Ming.

The calm Wu Xiulan was not paying attention to the meeting, instead, she was looking at her cute secret disciple.

A secret disciple is a special type of disciple. It is mostly used by loose cultivators, as cultivator's started taking disciples, they discovered that by relying on someone else in the early stages, some cultivators potential would be reduced, this was not absolute, as such only some used this method.

Wu Xiulan had created several secret realms and trials by fire to test Zhou Niu. In one of them, the little girl had even obtained Wu Xiulan's inheritance.

"I should take her as a personal disciple when she reaches True Awakening " mused Wu Xiulan as she spied on Zhou Niu. In fact, while her cultivation was only at the first rank of qi refinement, her combat power was not, Zhou Niu was currently hiding her power so as to not be found by the enemies Wu Xiulan had created for her.

"I vote against punishment " said Hao Xifeng as the power remaining in her incarnation almost dissipated.

Xiong Feng frowned as he looked at this cultivation maniac. The fact that Xu Yue had great talent meant that she would vote in her favor.

When referring to Hao Xifeng, the term cultivation maniac was completely accurate. At least the other cultivation-obsessed one came to this meeting with her true body, unlike Hao Xifeng, who spends every minute of the day cultivating, leaving everything else to be managed by incarnations.

After a few moments of deep thought, Deng Huiling contacted Xu Ming.

"What is it? " asked Xu Ming.

"Can you at least have her not kill important people, especially at the Luck Gathering Tournament, as long as they are not dead, it won't cause much trouble" said Deng Huiling as she looked at Xu Ming.

Thinking of all the trouble he had caused her over the years, Xu Ming sighed and accepted.

Deng Huiling was the one who managed the overall direction of the sect. She was also the Sect Master from twenty-three generations ago.

She is the one who Xu Chao usually goes to for directions if he has a problem. The relationship between the two of them is equivalent to that of a master and disciple.

"I vote for punishment " said Deng Huiling.

Xu Ming was not surprised. Even though the two of them negotiated, she still had to maintain her reputation.

"For punishment," said Yang Long, as he sighed at how meaningless the vote had become.

"Against punishment," said Xu Yun.

A brief silence ensued as the cultivators looked at the cultivating Xu Lanfeng.

"Against " said Xu Langfeng, before disappearing from the meeting.

"The result has been decided " said Deng Huiling.

A moment later, all of the others had disappeared.

In the endless void.

Xu Jinming, along with six other beings, was looking at the meeting through a large screen. When the arguing ended and the voting began, the screen disappeared.

"So boring " mumbled Xu Jinming as he saw them vote.

Only one of the beings remained serious, the other five watched their descendants argue with each other for entertainment.

Yang Bing let out a string of laughter as she saw how serious and upright her descendant was.

"Brother Ming, why were you keeping this entertainment to yourself? I should have known you could do some things we can't, with you being the Daolord " said Yang Bing, the ancestor of the Yang family.

"Junior sister Yang, what do you think of your descendant this generation? " asked Xu Jinming, completely diverting the subject.

The moment he said, Xu Jinming regretted his loud mouth. Both he and the other five fled before Yang Bing could begin to talk, not wanting to have to stay here for ten thousand years.

Yang Bing also disappeared a moment later, leaving for an unknown place.